| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Hope Ho" <ho(dot)hope(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: modularity of PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2008-01-18 13:09:29 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920801180509o42693d07ga4137e519a737002@mail.gmail.com |
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On Jan 17, 2008 6:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Uh, does anyone authoritative describe it that way? I think we can
> legitimately claim that Postgres is pretty extensible, but as for
> modularity I'm not sure that it's got any great claim to fame.
> To me modularity connotes an emphasis on dividing the system into
> pieces separated by carefully-defined, small-footprint interfaces,
> and we have not done spectacularly well on that score.
Agreed. Postges is extensible, not modular.
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